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Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:39:05 -0500
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Re: Backhouse and Bateman, "Wanted: Worldly Philosophers"
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On 11/17/2011 8:00 AM, Robert Leeson wrote:
> Hayek's 1978 defence of the "civilisation" of the Nazi-led
> apartheid regime against the "fashion ... of human rights"
> which the US discovered "two years ago or five years ago."

Since it may help to have a source for Robert's quote
fragments:
http://www.hayek.ufm.edu/index.php?title=Bob_Chitester_part_I&p=video1&b=930&e=1037

While I consider Hayek's comments to be more nuanced than
Robert's presentation suggests, they are certainly not his
finest hour, either analytically or ethically.

Alan Isaac

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